Understanding the power of honey through its proteins
Honey is a culinary staple that can be found in kitchens around the world. Humans have used honey throughout history, ...
Month: May 2019
Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches
Credit: US Department of Energy WASHINGTON--Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest ...
Complex geology contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster, new study finds
Credit: US Coast Guard A study from The University of Texas at Austin is the first published in a scientific ...
Soaking up pharmaceuticals and personal care products from water
Medications excreted in the urine or dumped into the toilet can end up in the water supply, just like lotions ...
Why some red wines taste ‘dry’
Wine connoisseurs can easily discriminate a dry red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, from a fruitier red, like Pinot Noir. ...
DGIST acquired the first KELAF Certification as a Daegu-Gyeongbuk Educational Institution
Credit: ©DGIST The DGIST Laboratory Animal Resource Center held a signboard hanging ceremony to celebrate its designation as a Korea ...
Great chocolate is a complex mix of science, physicists reveal
The science of what makes good chocolate has been revealed by researchers studying a 140-year-old mixing technique. Scientists have uncovered ...
1/3 of all cancers in Canada can be prevented by a combination of policymaking & education
Results of the ComPARe project reported in a special issue of Preventive Medicine on the burden of cancer in Canada ...
Behold the mayo: Experiments reveal ‘instability threshold’ of elastic-plastic material
Rayleigh-Taylor-instability experiments confirm that the instability of elastic-plastic material is a function of initial conditions, such as amplitude and wavelength; ...
Novel molecular multi-step photoswitches caught in the act
Infrared movies with quantum chemical subtitles unveil operating mechanismCredit: Dusan Kolarski/Michael Lerch Scientists from the University of Groningen, the University ...
Stark racial, financial divides found in opioid addiction treatment
Sharp growth in appointments for buprenorphine prescriptions mainly involved white patients; and three-quarters of prescriptions go to those who pay ...
DEMRC wins 6 awards in the world’s largest 2019 international exhibition for inventions
DGIST-ETH micro robot center wins 6 awards in the world's largest 2019 international exhibition of inventions genevaCredit: ©DGIST DGIST announced ...
Development of ‘transparent and flexible battery’ for power generation and storage at once
Successful development of single-layer graphene-based devices for various useCredit: ©DGIST Various use of electronics and skin-attachable devices are expected with ...
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre of Mount Sinai elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Highest honor recognizing outstanding contributions to science Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, and ...
Insilico to present at the Russian Pharmaceutical Forum
Credit: Insilico Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the ...
ACM honors computing innovators who are changing the world
Award recipients made contributions to areas including artificial intelligence, economics, genome research, geo-distributed systems, and softwareCredit: Courtesy, ACM ACM, the ...
Cancer risk tools underused in general practice, research shows
Potentially life-saving cancer risk assessment tools are being widely underused by general practices across the UK, according to new research. ...
Gold makes invisible surfaces visible in CT
Credit: Peter Ruehr, Markus Lambertz Today, the three-dimensional visualization and analysis of biological samples using computer tomography (CT) is a ...
Press invitation to the presentation of the Humboldt Professorships on May 9, 2019 in Berlin
Nine award winners from abroad will each receive up to €5 million and soon conduct research in Bonn, Cologne, Darmstadt, ...
The clinical and biological significance of HER2 over-expression in breast ductal carcinoma in situ: A large study from a single institution
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and is responsible for thousands of deaths each year. Ductal ...
